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Rhenanida ("Rhine fish") were flattened, ray-like, bottom-dwelling predators with large, upturned mouths that lived in marine environments. The rhenanids were once presumed to be the most primitive, or at least the closest to the ancestral placoderm, as their armour was made of unfused components—a mosaic of tubercles—as opposed to the ...
Album details Peak chart positions UK [1] UK Indie [2] NL [4] Yin: Released: 28 August 1995; Label: Dick Bros; Formats: CD, MC; 58 9 68 Yang: Released: 28 August 1995; Label: Dick Bros; Formats: CD, MC; 52 8 73 Kettle of Fish (88–98) Released: 9 November 1998; Label: Roadrunner; Formats: CD — — — Bouillabaisse – The Best of Fish ...
Coelacanths (/ ˈ s iː l ə k æ n θ / ⓘ SEE-lə-kanth) (order Coelacanthiformes) are an ancient group of lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii) in the class Actinistia. [2] [3] As sarcopterygians, they are more closely related to lungfish and tetrapods (which includes amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) than to ray-finned fish.
Inside the stout fins of a fish that prowled the shallow waters of an estuary in what is now eastern Canada about 380 million years ago, scientists have found what they call the evolutionary ...
Helicoprion is a genus of extinct shark-like [1] eugeneodont fish. Almost all fossil specimens are of spirally arranged clusters of the individuals' teeth, called "tooth whorls", which in life were embedded in the lower jaw. As with most extinct cartilaginous fish, the skeleton is mostly unknown.
An angler recently reeled in an “incredibly rare” and prehistoric fish while fishing in Kansas, according to state wildlife officials. Kevin Zirjacks was casting his line in the Kansas River ...
Leedsichthys is an extinct genus of pachycormid fish that lived in the oceans of the Middle to Late Jurassic. [1] It is the largest ray-finned fish, and amongst the largest fish known to have ever existed. [2] The first remains of Leedsichthys were identified in the nineteenth century.
One of the coolest, most prehistoric-looking fish lives in Florida’s offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It happens to be one of the best to eat but also one of the most elusive.